{"id":1028,"date":"2005-02-24T11:13:10","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T11:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/02\/freeview_good_n\/"},"modified":"2005-02-24T11:13:10","modified_gmt":"2005-02-24T11:13:10","slug":"freeview_good_n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/freeview_good_n\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeview: Good News, Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good news, according to Broadcast this week, is that ITV and C4 are favourites to win the vacant Freeview slot that&#8217;s been put up for lease by Crown Castle. This means that we don&#8217;t get another shopping channel. The bad news is that ITV wants to put a version of Men &#038; Motors on the channel, and C4 is &#8220;exploring options including a gaming channel&#8221;.<br \/>\nSomehow, I&#8217;m sure that Turner could have come up with a more interesting channel, as would Disney or even NBC Universal. Even better would have been David Elstein putting his <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/broadcast\/story\/0,7493,1423681,00.html\">newly purchased<\/a> Hallmark on the platform.<br \/>\nHow long do Top-Up TV have left on their lease of their space? If E4 left the fold, where would it go (since it&#8217;s not currently on Top-Up TV 24 hours a day), and would Top-Up TV be sustainable as a business without this service?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news, according to Broadcast this week, is that ITV and C4 are favourites to win the vacant Freeview slot that&#8217;s been put up for lease by Crown Castle. This means that we don&#8217;t get another shopping channel. The bad news is that ITV wants to put a version of Men &#038; Motors on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}